Private detective Nick Baxter, having arrived from New York to Los Angeles at the request of his friend from his youth, in the very first hour of his stay in this city, even before meeting his friend, was almost sent to the next world, having collided on the street with a woman passing by, who stabbed him with some object, the tip of which was saturated with curare poison. Fate took pity on Nick and, after a short stay in the hospital and recovery, he finally ends up in his friend’s house, where he learns that he was also poisoned with the same poison and died in terrible agony. Baxter begins his own investigation, trying to find out the reasons for the murder and wanting to find the killer. The book was published under the titles: “The Labyrinth of Death”, “Requiem for a Killer”.